Farnsworth v. Strasler’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1949
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We can not say that the Circuit Court erred in appointing a special commissioner or master to carry the decree into execution; although it was business properly appertaining to the duties of the resident master in that county, yet the court was vested with the authority to appoint the special commissioner to execute the decree, and we will presume that this change from the ordinary course was made for sufficient reasons, and the court was not bound to spread those reasons upon the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorr v. Hunter
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.